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  • HOLDING THE LINE
    HOLDING THE LINE
    BARBARA KINGSOLVER
    FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DEMON COPPHERHEADFROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FROM THE TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE '[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.' ANNE PATCHETT 'A mesmerising account of women finding their voices.' THE TIMES 'A jaw-dropping and warm-hearted read.' WOMAN & HOM...
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  • THE DARK FOREST
    THE DARK FOREST
    CIXIN LIU
    Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey. Earth has. Now the predators are coming. Crossing light years, they will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individu...
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  • TALE OF THE HEART QUEEN
    TALE OF THE HEART QUEEN
    NISHA J. TULI
    'UTTERLY ENTHRALLING' Rebecca Yarros, New York Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing Tale of the Heart Queen is the spellbinding conclusion to the Artefacts of Ouranos romantasy sensation, filled with enticing magic, perilous action and sizzling romance. Fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and Serpent and the Wings of Night will be hooked! After Lor makes the biggest mistak...
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  • THE SCHOOLDAYS OF JESUS
    THE SCHOOLDAYS OF JESUS
    J. M. COETZEE
    When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins. Davíd is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him i...
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  • IN A THOUSAND DIFFERENT WAYS
    IN A THOUSAND DIFFERENT WAYS
    CECELIA AHERN
    Finding your way is never a simple journey... Alice sees the worst in people. She also sees the best. She sees a thousand different emotions and knows exactly what everyone around her is feeling. Every. Single. Day. But it's the dark thoughts. The sadness. The rage. These are the things she can't get out of her head. The things that overwhelm her. Where will the journey to ...
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  • REAPER'S GALE
    REAPER'S GALE
    STEVEN ERIKSON
    All is not well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his Machiavellian chancellor, while the Letherii secret police conduct a campaign of terror against its own people. The Errant, once a farseeing god, is suddenly blind to the future. ...
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  • FIVE FORGET MOTHER'S DAY
    FIVE FORGET MOTHER'S DAY
    BRUNO VINCENT
    Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy are keen to show Aunt Fanny how much she means to them. Join Julian, George, Dick, Anne and Timmy the dog as they try to celebrate Mother's Day with Aunt Fanny. George has pas...
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  • ARIEL
    ARIEL
    DEREK JOHNS
    Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places (rather than 'travel writer'), elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she has fashioned a distinctive prose style that is elegant, fastidious, supple, and sometimes gloriously gaudy. For many readers she is best known for her candid memoir Conundrum, which described th...
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  • DOWNFALL
    DOWNFALL
    ANNA ARUTUNYAN / MARK GALEOTTI
    Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the most dangerous warlords in the world and as one of Vladimir Putin's chief rivals in Russia's tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading Wagner's attempted coup and killed in a mysterious plane crash. But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos unleashed across Russia by his tu...
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  • COVET
    COVET
    TRACY WOLFF
    Grace's story continues in Covet, the third in New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff's lush, action-packed and romantic young adult paranormal fantasy series. 'Fandom's new favourite vampire romance obsession' Hypable 'This generation's Twilight' Lynn Rush 'I'm having the BEST book hangover. Filled with danger, humour, and heart, Crave proves that vampires are defini...
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  • THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MEANINGS
    THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MEANINGS
    RUPAUL / RUPAUL
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date--a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance and self-acceptance. A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings...
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  • THE BLACK SWAN
    THE BLACK SWAN
    NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
    Black Swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about...
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  • BALLADS OF THE LORDS OF NEW SPAIN
    BALLADS OF THE LORDS OF NEW SPAIN
    Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads show a reordering—but not an abandonment—of classic Aztec values. In the careful re...
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  • BLACK WOLF
    BLACK WOLF
    JUAN GÓMEZ-JURADO
    The highly anticipated sequel to Juan Gómez-Jurado's number 1 international bestseller, Red Queen, now an original series streaming on Amazon Prime. Antonia Scott is the lynchpin of the Red Queen project, created to work behind the scenes to solve the most dark, devious and dangerous crimes. In southern Spain, in the Costa del Sol, a key mafia figure is found brutally murdere...
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  • SUPREMACY
    SUPREMACY
    PARMY OLSON
    Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Updated paperback edition with a new preface from the author. The astonishing story of the people fighting to control the future of generative artificial intelligence - and, therefore, the future of humanity. From award-winning journalist Parmy Olson. Two titans of Silicon Valley, Microsoft and Google, rushed to e...
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  • NOBLE HOUSE
    NOBLE HOUSE
    JAMES CLAVELL
    Over one hundred years have passed since Dirk Struan founded Hong Kong's oldest trading company. But now, the Noble House is in danger. As Hong Kong itself becomes the deadly playground of the CIA, the KGB and the People's Republic of China, rival tai-pans, seeking revenge for blood feuds over a century old, gather for the kill. ...
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  • SEVEN YEAR ITCH
    SEVEN YEAR ITCH
    AMY DAWS
    "Deliciously funny and spicy." -Elsie Silver, New York Times bestselling author Alone and Looking to Bone! Loudmouthed Mountain Man Seeks Fiery Woman to Grow Old With. I might look like a tall, tattooed, bearded neanderthal...but like an onion, I have layers. Swipe right if you like a proud cat daddy who catches feelings after direct eye contact. All I wanted was a casua...
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  • THE DAILY LAWS
    THE DAILY LAWS
    ROBERT GREENE
    A year's worth of daily wisdom and guidance from the master of self-development ...
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  • INSIDE A PEARL
    INSIDE A PEARL
    EDMUND WHITE
    ______________ 'Paris may well be White's pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl ... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund White ... Entertaining and wry, White is worldly-wise and wise' - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times 'Edmund White writing about his Paris years, with walk-on parts for Catherine Deneuve, Y...
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  • DARING GREATLY
    DARING GREATLY
    BRENÉ BROWN
    **Now on Netflix as The Call to Courage** 'She's so good, Brené Brown, at finding the language to articulate collective feeling' Dolly Alderton Every time we are faced with change, no matter how great or small, we also face risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - or feel guilt for feeling them in the first place. In a ...
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  • ON PALESTINE
    ON PALESTINE
    NOAM CHOMSKY / ILAN PAPPÉ
    "On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region. What is the future of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement directed at Israel? Which is more viable, the binational or one state solution? Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss these critical questions and more in this ur...
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  • FOUR LIVES REMAIN: TATSUYA ENDO BEFORE SPY X FAMILY
    FOUR LIVES REMAIN: TATSUYA ENDO BEFORE SPY X FAMILY
    TATSUYA ENDO
    A dark and gritty collection of short stories from Tatsuya Endo before Spy x Family!A young girl fighting her way through bounty hunter school. A princess forced to flee her moon empire after a coup. Witch-hunters hell-bent on killing with bloodsucking swords. And a group of ragtag musketeers tracking down armed robbers. In these early works by Tatsuya Endo, creator of the hit ...
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  • THE SILENT DEATH
    THE SILENT DEATH
    VOLKER KUTSCHER
    MEET DETECTIVE GEREON RATH IN THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT TV SERIES BABYLON BERLIN'[Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction.' -The New York Times Following international bestseller Babylon Berlin, Volker Kutscher takes us back to Berlin in the second Gereon Rath Mystery. In The Silent Death, Inspector Rath investi...
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  • DAVID VS GOLIATH CHESS
    DAVID VS GOLIATH CHESS
    ANDREW SOLTIS
    Strategies and examples for beating a superior opponent in chess. Chess history is littered with David vs Goliath chess struggles where the weaker player has prevailed. Chess masters, even international grandmasters, can be defeated by young, improving players who use the right techniques and proper attitude. In David vs Goliath Chess, renowned chess writer Andrew Soltis takes ...
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  • HOW TO BE BOTH
    HOW TO BE BOTH
    ALI SMITH
    WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015 WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014 WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD 'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening Standard How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversat...
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  • STORIES OF OTHER WORLDS
    STORIES OF OTHER WORLDS
    COLIN EVERARD
    In his Stories of Other Worlds, Colin Everard introduces us to the concept that we usually 'feel' that we live and function in our particular 'World'.In his wonderful collection of short stories, he tells us about other 'Worlds'. His Stories are disparate; although, without exception, they are authoritatively informative, and sometimes they are inevitably dramatic. From desert ...
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  • BALTASAR & BLIMUNDA
    BALTASAR & BLIMUNDA
    JOSÉ SARAMAGO
    In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where women are burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening- Padre Bar...
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  • A RIVER DIES OF THIRST: DIARIES
    A RIVER DIES OF THIRST: DIARIES
    MA?MUD DARWISH
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  • HOMELANDS
    HOMELANDS
    TIMOTHY GARTON ASH
    'Tremendously enjoyable ... thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide ... panoramic ... defiantly hopeful' Financial Times Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered. Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer ...
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  • RIGHTEOUS SISTERHOOD
    RIGHTEOUS SISTERHOOD
    SARAH L. HOILAND
    A righteous sister identifies herself as a biker. She might wrench, or maintain, her own bike, and she prefers to ride with other righteous sisters. Righteous Sisterhood is Sarah Hoiland's insightful ethnography about an all-women motorcycle club (MC). She recounts stories of women bikers for whom riding in an MC is "an act of rebellion" and "liberating" even as it constrains—a...
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